Person
Bunton, John David
- Occupation
- Electrical engineer
Summary
John David Bunton is a Senior Principal Research Engineer in the Wireless Technology Laboratory of the CSIRO's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) centre. In this position he has been project manager or chief investigator for wireless based research initiatives with a wide array of applications, and this has led to involvement with NASA and the Australian coal-mining industry.
He was part of the Gigabit Wireless project which, in 2007, was awarded the CSIRO Chairman's Medal and Engineers Australia's Engineering Excellence Award.
Details
Bunton received the following CSIRO medals:
1992 - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (with John O'Sullivan and colleagues in the Fast Fourier Technology Team) for developing and applying the Fast Fourier Transform technology;
2007 - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence as a member of the Gigabit Wireless Team for the development of the world's fastest and most spectrally efficient 6 gigabit per second wireless millimetre-wave communications link.
Chronology
- 1973
- Education - Bachelor of Science, Sydney University
- 1975
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Sydney University
- 1982
- Education - Ph.D. , University of Sydney
- 1983 - 1986
- Career position - Engineer, Fleurs Radio Telescope, University of Sydney
- 1986 - 1988
- Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Fleurs Radio Telescope, University of Sydney
- 1989 -
- Career position - Experimental Scientist (later Senior Principal Research Engineer), CSIRO Division of Radiophysics (now ICT)
- 1992
- Award - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (with colleagues)
- 2000
- Award - Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) Excellence Award
- 2007
- Award - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellencel (with colleagues)
- 2007
- Award - Engineering Excellence Award for the Multi-Gigabit, mm-wave Wireless, Engineers Australia
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Bunton, John David', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-500285. Details
Resource Sections
- Ward, C., 'John David Bunton', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Bunton-John-David. Details
See also
- Ward, Colin, 'CSIRO Entrepreneurship Award', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2013, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/csiro-entrepreneurship-award/. Details
- Ward, Colin, The Chair's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence, CSIROpedia, CSIRO, 2023. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/chairmans-medal/. Details
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Created: 23 February 2012, Last modified: 28 March 2024